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F. EITAPENO. LEAD PIPE REEL.

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No. 355,515. Patented Jeni. 4, 1887.

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- WITNESSES I FRED. EITAPENO, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

. LEAD-PIPE REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,515, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed September 15, 1886 To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED. EITAPENO, of Binghamton, Broome county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Im provement in Devices for Reeling and Unreeling Lead Pipe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Heretofore it has been customary for manufacturers to put up lead pipeon reels without an inclosing-case, the heads of the reels being connected by slats, which it was necessary to knock off before the pipe could be nnreeled to measure off and dispose of it tocustomers, and

' also necessary to elevate the reel by passing a bar through its hollow shaft or body,,and to support said bar on boxes or other supports to admit ofthe turning of the reel. Like difficulties also attended the putting up of the pipe on the reel, although when the reel was loaded with pipe the labor and inconvenience were much greater. While the reel, therefore, is in some respects a convenient means for shipping and dispensing lead pipe, 'it is very objectionable in the respects named, mainly because of the separate putting on and taking oii of the slats and the great weight of the pipe on the reel, and the necessary dismemberment of the reels speedily destroyed them.

My invention obviates these defects; and it consists in a novel construction and combination of parts in the reel, which is provided with an outer rolling-case, substantially as herein after described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a front view of the reel having an inclosing-case embodying my invention; Fig. 2, asection of the same upon the lineman in Fig. 3, which is a transverse section of the reel and case.

A indicates an outer reel-case, of circular form, adapted to roll over the ground, and which is made up ofopposite ends or heads I) b and slats a, connecting them. I

B is the reel proper, arranged within the case and havingthe same axial center as the case A. Said reel consists in part of opposite heads d (I, mounted on flanged metal sockets seriainofaiasse. (NomodeL) or sleeves e e, which are secured byscrews or pinsffto or on the hollow metal shaftg of the reel, to hold said heads at their proper distance apart and to prevent straining or racking of the reel. Screw-sleeves h h on the outer ends of the shaft 9 keep the reel in proper longitudinal position within the case to avoid friction.

Arranged closely around the shaft g, at suitable distances apart from each other, are a series of bars, i, which connect the heads aato- 6o gether, and which also serve to engage the entering end of the lead pipe 0 with the reel, when or before coiling the pipe, by bending said end and entering-the same between any two of the bars 2', as shown in Fig. 3. A removable crank or handle, D, is fitted into the end of the shaft 9 to coil the pipe on the reel. This handle may be removed when shipping the whole device with its load of pipe, and the V hollow shaft g serves to admit of an iron bar being inserted through it, or being inserted into either end to steady and guide the whole device when moving the same about and when loading it on or removing it from a truck, the case A and not the reel proper forming the rollingsurface. By this construction there will be no necessity to raise-the reel from the ground in order to coil the lead pipe on it or to pay off said pipe from it, nor yet to remove the slats c, as the pipe may readily be passed 8o at any convenient point between two adjacent slats or other side opening in the stationary case A, and said case be kept from turning or moving when coiling the pipe on or uncoiling it from the reel by scotching the case A with a block of wood, a stone, or other stop. The

lead-pipe may then be drawn out from the reel through one of the openings 8' between the slats or in the side of the case A, and the reel be turned without removing the slats. "Thus 0 not only is greater convenience afforded in coiling and uncoiling the lead pipe and much labor saved, but the reel is rendered more durable by not having to knock off the slats to pay out the coil from the reel, and the whole 5 is so fitted that it may be readily taken apart when required.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new,' and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In 'a device for reeling and unreeling iug inner circular series of bars,i, of theflanged lead pipe, the combination of the circular case sockets e e, united with the shaft, whereby the A, adapted to roll over the ground and proreel-heads are held at their proper distance vided with any number of side openings,.s, the apart and the reel is stiffened and strength- 15 5 reel B, provided with an inner circular series I ened at itsjunetion with the shaft, essentially of bars, 1, between its heads or ends, and the as shown and described;

hollow shaft 9 Carrying said reel and havin its bearings intheends or heads of the case? I FRED EITAPENO' substantially as and for the purposes specified. Witnesses:

'0 2. The combination, with the case A, hollow J. HARRY UNDERWOOD,

shaft and reel-heads d d, with their conneet- EDWARD N. ABBOTT. 

